Will there be a future without Beer?

Few would suspect there would or could ever be a shortage of beer to go around, but Jim Salinger, a climate scientist at New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research states that barley production, at least in Australia, will decline with global warming and beer would taste different. Breweries may have to look at new varieties of barley with the increasingly dry conditions forecast for New Zealand and Australia with doubling of greenhouse gases there.

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This could be the tip of the proverbial iceberg . . . 

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